Social documents, historical narrativ es and of course creative literature has witnessed a barrage of documentation regarding patriarchy and female oppression. The problem defies socio -ethnic boundaries and is least dependent on socio -political and financial strength and stability of a region. Most of it has generated a reaction in the form of pro -women’s rights writing broadly classified as feminism or feminist theory both from male as well as female writers which again is sourced on a global scale with takers throughout the globe. In the doma in of feminist writing that constitute writings by women and also those on women, use of silence plays a very strategic role in highlighting the acute sufferings and oppression of women. Again, the use of silence is a common thread in most of the feminist writings. Ironically , some have seen silence as the loudest way of narrativising feminism. The present paper is an analysis of Vijay Tendulkar’s use of silence as an effective means of articulating the male supremacy and the resultant women ’s oppression rampant in the Indian society . His play , Silence! The Court is in Session explores ‘silence’ as the regulatory and mandatory silence of court proceedings on surface level but also suggests the silence of men as well as women in the face of female oppression. This paper tries to analyse the play as a simultaneous promotion and campaigning of women ’s rights and their limitations vis a vis moral and ethical norms in general and Indian social reality and adaptability in particular